Deuteronomy 4:40

New English Translation

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Cross References

Psalm 105:45

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Exodus 23:26

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Even though a sinner might commit a hundred crimes and still live a long time, yet I know that it will go well with God-fearing people – for they stand in fear before him.

Isaiah 65:20

Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

Jeremiah 11:4

Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time, “Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 35:18

Then Jeremiah spoke to the Rechabite community, “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘You have obeyed the orders of your ancestor Jonadab. You have followed all his instructions. You have done exactly as he commanded you.’

Jeremiah 7:23

I also explicitly commanded them: “Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”

Jeremiah 7:7

If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

Leviticus 22:31

“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

Numbers 10:29

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things for Israel.”

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Ephesians 6:3

“that it may go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 12:25

You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Deuteronomy 12:28

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 22:7

You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Deuteronomy 25:15

You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 32:47

For this is no idle word for you – it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 33:25

The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you.

Deuteronomy 4:5

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 4:6

So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”

Deuteronomy 5:10

but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 6:18

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 6:3

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number – as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Timothy 4:8

For “physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”